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1942 Pattern? Cent

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This is another loop closer on a string from many months back. I couldn't find the original string. SPP had made a reference to this coin once in the past. It is a bit of a mystery. It has perfect one cent dimensions. But it is short weight and XRF analysis showed it to be made of cupro nickel. There is no record of a cupro nickel 1942 pattern cent, but there were other wartime test coins. Also, and I am sure SPP can remind me, I believe that there may be a known example of another 1942 coin struck on an almost identical planchet.

Another mystery is how this coin came to be so heavily circulated. I am guessing it was a pocket piece. This coin came from an old Ottawa family collection. The original collector had been long dead when I got it so there is no information available on how it was found.



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This coin was tested by me, and featured as a 'Oops of the Month' column by Henry Nienhuis, CN journal, April 2010, p. 174-175.

The colour contrast is not great in that hard holder - this thing looks just like a US nickel in colour. Here is one of my photos...

1942-Pattern?-Cent

There is a 5-cent, of the same date, struck on a planchet of the same size and composition... that will be published shortly, in the CN Journal.

PS - smallcentguy, thanks to a frantic March, I am behind on my emails and mail. You will have (snail) mail shortly...
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Nice Smallcentguy...SPP-Ottawa

Just curious SPP...what is the composition of yours? Is there a story behind that one?
Would have been interesting to hear the story behind Smallcentguy's coin from the owner.

Nice...glad you posted these.
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The story from the owner will never be known....the original owner died in 1967 and the owner's heir died in 2008.
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